Bread Machines

[tcreeley]

I took the summer off- heat, but I generally make no knead bread

6 cups Bob's red mill organic all purpose flour

tablespoon sugar (demara)

teaspoon instant (bread machine) yeast

mix the dry

add 2 2/3 cups of water

mix by hand - looking for a dough that sticks together (don't add extra water)

put it in a covered container in the refrigerator for 18-24 hours

flour parchment paper and hands and scoop out dough onto paper

shape it squeezing in the sides and push the center down

fold the parchment paper up around it and cover with dish cloth for an hour+ to let it rise

preheat oven and cast iron dutch oven (very lightly oiled - can smoke) (lid off to the side) to 475F for 45 minutes

when ready reshape dough into a loaf

remove dutch oven from oven and lift the dough into it on the parchment paper (then trim paper).... or just pick up the dough without the paper and drop it into dutch oven

cover and bake 30 min at 475

after 30 min, uncover dutch over and bake for 15 min at 475

Remove from oven, tip out bread, place on cooling rack and let it sit until it is cool before you try to cut it

hard crust - need a bread knife or you crush it trying to cut it

---took me 5 times before I got a consistent loaf that I liked - add raisins, currants, cranberries, walnuts to the dry mix for some bread variations - all delicious

(I don't use salt, -blood pressure - I do throw in a 1/2 tablespoon of ceylon cinnamon half the times I make it.)


Look on youtube.

 

[Industrial Toys]

I was going to mention the thrift store idea. It seems that bread makers were the "fad" x-mas gift a few years back.

 

[dfkrug]

One thing about bread makers, they are in most every used store, (Salvation Army ect..)
many still new in the box. They are usually priced 2 or 3 dollars each, and that's where "ours" came from...

I picked up a couple of Hitachis that way. $5 or $10, something like that. My first new one was
something like $60.

I got my first breadmaker about 30y ago, a Welbilt from DAK. Dome glass top, cylindrical loaves. Loved it, but the
motor would overheat, so I had to run a small fan next to it. After a couple of years, I got my first Hitachi. Excellent.
The wife and I would make our own favorite types of bread 2x/week. That went on for many years. Wore out
three of them, and sadly, Hitachi quit the biz.

Enter Breadman, our current machine. We rarely use it now, cuz it does 3 rises instead of 2. A few times per
year I will use it just to make dough, and do the first rise. I will knead and bake it manually, after it is done.
Too much work. I have converted to store-bought tortillas.

Never tried a Zojirushi. Maybe I should.

 

[k0ua]

I have made bread by hand several times. The loafs were great and always a hit. We got a used bread machine and the wife used it quite a bit. The loaves varied on how good they were. Sometimes it took me 5 minutes to get the loaf out as it would bake to the mixer in the bottom. After a while the machine just wasn't working right and we got rid of it.

This thread has me itching to make some more homemade loafs. I also enjoy homemade pasta and pizza dough. Just need more time...

There is a timed beep on ours that tells you to take the dough out and remove the dough hook and put the dough back in for baking. This solves the loaf removal problem.

 

[CADplans]

There is a timed beep on ours that tells you to take the dough out and remove the dough hook and put the dough back in for baking. This solves the loaf removal problem.

Ours bakes with the hook in the loaf,,, it decorates the bottom krajček,,

That is OK, the wife and I split the other one.
Our bread machine never had a loaf stick,, when it beeps, turn the pan over, out drops the loaf.

 

[CADplans]

Our bread maker is called a "Breadman Ultimate",,, $4 at thrift store,,, :thumbsup:

 

[MrWhippy]

We go through one to two loaves per week. Our first machine was crappy and we quickly moved to an Oster machine, that was good for 5 years until the heating element became inconsistent. We've had the Zojirushi for 6 years. It makes a standard sized loaf, in addition to amazing pound cake, carrot cake, banana bread and passible jam

 

[Larry Caldwell]

I have company coming next weekend, and will use the machine to make pizza dough. I add garlic and oregano to the dough, which makes a savory pizza crust.

 

[buickanddeere]

I have made bread by hand several times. The loafs were great and always a hit. We got a used bread machine and the wife used it quite a bit. The loaves varied on how good they were. Sometimes it took me 5 minutes to get the loaf out as it would bake to the mixer in the bottom. After a while the machine just wasn't working right and we got rid of it.

This thread has me itching to make some more homemade loafs. I also enjoy homemade pasta and pizza dough. Just need more time...

The other advantage to making kneading dough and making bread by manually is that it lifts those stubborn stains and dirt from the hands .

 

[David Wayne]

The other advantage to making kneading dough and making bread by manually is that it lifts those stubborn stains and dirt from the hands .

Got a chuckle out of that, I make bread by hand in the fall and winter. always tell the wife and grandkids " look no grease under my fingernails, I baked bread". I make six loafs at a time, one is gone right out of the oven, another is gone the next morning-makes the best french toast.